In keeping with NST tradition, I've created and uploaded the ISO images for the Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit recovery discs, ready for anyone that needs them. Seeing as the holiday season is getting real close and Windows 7 is about to hit the shelves, I think the number of people needing this disc is about to sky rocket.

I'm from holland and my english is not very well, so excuse me for that.
I have a uge problem.A friend of my gave me his computer whit a problem.
Windows 7 cant start.
system32/winload.exe. is missing or damaged.

I downloaded Download Windows 7 System Recovery Discs
and wrote it to cd.
Put cd in notebook and started up from cd.
Choose for "start up from last known good working configuration".
All seemt to go well.
After a few minuets the computer was ready.

Then i see something realy strange happend.
There is no windows 7 but WINDOWS VISTA on the notebook.
It is a notebook 1 week old whit a sticker that says windows 7.
After recovery there is windows vista.
How in the h... is that possible?

One of my coworkers has a Compaq netbook with Windows 7 Starter edition installed that has become corrupted. The system restore options are no longer accessible from the F11 key, and the netbook won't boot to windows (just a blinking cursor after the BIOS screen). Of course, the netbook has no CD drive so the owner wasn't able to create the recovery CD that HP was too cheap to provide.

My question is this: provided that the factory restore partition wasn't damaged, can this repair disk also be used to access the system recovery menu to launch system restore on a Win7 Starter edition OS installation?

I don't know what the disc in Post #1 does, or why it is needed? But I made a Windows 7 System Repair disc so I could use the Backup and Recover (from image file) feature built-in to WIndows 7, and I got a message when I booted from the disc that my boot blocks needed repair. I do have W7 in a dual-boot with WXP having used a version of EasyBCD from last year sometime.

Is anyone here aware of/familiar with this issue? I of course did NOT use W7's Repair Disc to "repair" my boot blocks, but maybe I should run EasyBCD 2.0 on my setup again? Using Repair option there?

The Windows 7 DVD has a complete "recovery center" that provides you with the option of recovering your system via automated recovery (searches for problems and attempts to fix them automatically), rolling-back to a system restore point, recovering a full PC backup, or accessing a command-line recovery console for advanced recovery purposes.

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It is mainly for those that got Win7 on their new PC and didnt get any media. Without such a Recovery Disk if you cant boot into Windows at all, then such a tool is needed.

But I don't have a boot problem. What I said was "I got a message when I booted from the disc that my boot blocks needed repair" and I was wondering if anyone knows why that would be the case? Should I let the W7 Repair disc repair the boot blocks, or keep ignoring the message? Should I instead attempt to repair using latest EasyBCD?

But I don't have a boot problem. What I said was "I got a message when I booted from the disc that my boot blocks needed repair" and I was wondering if anyone knows why that would be the case? Should I let the W7 Repair disc repair the boot blocks, or keep ignoring the message? Should I instead attempt to repair using latest EasyBCD?

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No one can really say why the Disk said this. Maybe it found some inconsistencies in the boot information? Maybe you dont have a boot problem now but you might soon? We cant really say. We dont know every detail about why some of the things Microsoft software says. We just know how to work with it and fix it if it breaks.

No one can really say why the Disk said this. Maybe it found some inconsistencies in the boot information? Maybe you dont have a boot problem now but you might soon? We cant really say. We dont know every detail about why some of the things Microsoft software says. We just know how to work with it and fix it if it breaks.